The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-12
AN AWFUL DISASTER.
The Worst Horrors Of Chats
worth Duplicated
ON THE CHICAGO & ATLANTIC
wholesale HurryinG of Souls Into
Eternity-The FrightfuI Car Stove
Narrowing Scenes.
The Railway Accident.

dent occurred on the Chicago & Allan
tic Railway early this morning, near
Kouts, Ind, in which the first reports
stated that twenty-five people were
killed and many injured. A fast freight
ran into the end of a passenger train,
telescoping two coaches.
q As nearly as could be learned at the
outset, the fated train was a passenger
express from the east, due in Chicago
this morning. A relief expedition was
quickly and secretly organized by the
railroad officials b re, and dispatched
to the scene, while other help was to be
hurried forward as soon as possible.
Two passenger trains arrive in Chicago
early IN the morning from the east, over
the Chicago & Atlantic, and 1t was i'm
possible to readily learn which was in
7olved, officials of the company refus-
ing the slightest scrap Of information.
It was Judged the horror occurred be-
tween 5 and o'clock this morning.
A special to the NelOS from Hammond,
Ind, says the passenger train, east
bound, on the Chicago & Atlantic Rail
way, leaving Hammond at 8.15 last
night, broke down near Kouts station.
The engine started ahead, leaying the
train, and stopped for water at Slate
Ditch. The engine got on the centre"
and could not get back to the train. A
stock train following, running on special
time, crashed into the sleeper, telescop-
ing the sleeper and four coaches. So
lar fourteen bodies have been taken
ington, Ind. being the only passenger
identified. The rest are burned beyond
recognition. The engineer and fire.
man on the stock train were wounded
and are not expected to live.
SCENES AT THE WRECK.
INDIANAPOLIS. October IL Advices
from the scene of the wreck on the
Chicago & Atlantic Railroad are meagre.
The train that was telescoped had
stopped for the Panhandle crossing,
when the fast freight dashed into the
rear. The passenger train was the ex-
press due in Chicago at s O'Clock, and
the accident occurred at o'clock.
Seven cars in III are said to have been
consumed by fire. including Pullman
sleeper. Fifteen persons were killed and
the same number injured.
a special to the EUening Journal from
North Judson, Ind, says: Another
Chatsworth railroad horror occurred on
the Chicago & Atlantic Railway this
morning, sixty miles east of Chicago,
near Kouts station. Seventeen pas
seugers were killed and burned up in
the wreck. and from twenty to thirty
were more or less injured. A heavy
fresh meat train telescOped the evening
accommodation train-the New York
express, which leaves Chicago at TAO p.
M. The accommodation, with one bag
gage car, two coaches and ole sleeper,
had stopped for water about one mile
west of Kouts, and a freight train fol-
lowing crashed iuto the sleeper, tel
escoping and burningup the entire pas
senger train, as boYe stated. William
Perry, auditor of this stark county, |
and wife and child were victims of the |
terrible fire, which broke out almost i'm |
mediately after the freight train crashed |
among the passengers. Not particle |
of their bodies was rescued from the |
flames. The entire responsibility ap-
pears to rest on the engineer of the
freight train. At this writing the
names of the other killed and wounded
cannot be ascertained.
WORSE THAN CHATswoTH.
KoUTs, Ind, October 1.-THE worst
horrors Of Chatsworth were duplicated
here to-day. Dozens of blood-stained,
smoke grimed, dead and dying women
and children, victims of railroad care
lsssness and laundering, Uttered the |
village station house this afternoon, the |
hotel and every other available resting |
place in the vicinity, while three miles
west down the track of the Chicago &
Atlantic Railway. near a lonely water
tank, piles OF fearfully- debris
mark the spot where the collision, sell
dom equaled for terrible results,
occurred The east-bound express
that left Chicago last night with
a great load of passengers, had
without moments warning, during q
temporary wait, been smashed into
from behind by a heavily-losded fast
freight, piungIng madly forward in the
darkness, bent on beating all competi-
ton in hurrying dressed meat to the
seaboard. Some part of the machinery
OF the passenger enginl had been thrown
out of order during the run from Chi
cagO. A trifling stop at the water tank
would make It all right, it was thought,
and the stop was accordingly made.
Suddenly out of the darkness
behind came the flash OF a |,
headlight, the rush and rat
tie OF many wheels, and then a
mighty crash. lust as at Chatsworth,
the s4eePlng coach now gOtln It's deadly
Work. The massive framework OF the
sleeper wa. transformed into a huge
catapult; pushed mercilessIy forward
by the freight, it crushed into the cars
forward, smashing their comparatively
light timbers and making the work of :
destruction complete. The wreck
quickly took fire, and
THE SIGHT OF THE sHRIEKING VICTIMS
and the dancing Of the flames was one
never to be forgotten. TO day, on his
bed of agony at the hotel at :
koGts, the engineer of the passenger
train told the following story: &
" We passed No 40 at Boone l
Grove on time, and started towards :
Kouts. No. 40 pulled out of the sta,i II.
less than two minutes behind US. whe. i
they should have waited much longer
When we were well away from to Wn. /